Azabu Gakuen

…Christian educator and politician of the Meiji and Taisho periods. Founder of Azabu Junior High School (the predecessor of Azabu Gakuen), a famous private secondary school in Tokyo. Born into a family of low-ranking samurai under the Tokugawa shogunate, he worked hard to study at the Shoheizaka Gakumonjo and the Kobusho, and also studied Western studies under Kondo Makoto and others. …

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…明治･大正期のキリスト教主義教育家，政治家。東京の有名な私立中等学校，麻布中学校(麻布学園の前身)の創設者。幕府下級武士の家に生まれ，苦学して昌平坂学問所や講武所に学び，また近藤真琴などに師事して洋学を修めた。…

※「麻布学園」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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